Testing

[Alfred Vahau]

Hello this is testing the group list

Cheers

Alfred

[roots44]

 test received

 

 cheers

AceT

LC4

Solomon Islands

[Fegsley...@educationpng.gov.pg]

Hello

We are from PNG group and looking forward to more discussions.

Currentl;y we having sessions on the distance leanring online sessions


FEGSLEY
Port Moresby

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[Solomon Lawsi]

Thanks,

 

Solomon Lawsi

PSTC

Port Moresby

Fegsley...@educationpng.gov.pg wrote:

[Solomon Lawsi]

test received.

[Solomon Lawsi]

Test received,

 

Solomon

Alfred Vahau <ava...@gmail.com> wrote:

[WENDELL]

Hello and good evening. I'm also tesing the groups list.

Regards

WENDELL

[roots44]

 Good  evening

 

test received

 

 

Regards

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Ace T

Solomon Islands

[Ellen wairiu]

Hi PNG group, welcome on board. My name is Ellen Wairiu from the SOlomons,

 

Tagio

EW

 

[WENDELL]

Hello,

this is testing the group list

Cheers

smith

[Regina...@educationpng.gov.pg]

Good Morning All,

Am only testing the group list

Yours in Wikkie

Regina

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[Solomon Lawsi]

Thanks.

 

Solomon Lawsi

Regina...@educationpng.gov.pg wrote:

[Nathan Andy Kwasam]

Hi Ellen, yu how?, good to see SI group online too, this is the wiki
community for sharing knowledge, skills and experience. Enjoy your trip.
Nathan from PNG

> Hi PNG group, welcome on board. My name is Ellen Wairiu from the
> SOlomons,
>
> Tagio
> EW
>
>
> On 8/13/08, Fegsley...@educationpng.gov.pg <
> Fegsley...@educationpng.gov.pg> wrote:
>>
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>> Hello
>>
>> We are from PNG group and looking forward to more discussions.
>>
>> Currentl;y we having sessions on the distance leanring online sessions
>>
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>> FEGSLEY
>> Port Moresby
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>> __________________________________
>>
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>> *"Alfred Vahau" <ava...@gmail.com>*

[Alfred Vahau]

Rcvd

Cheers
Alf

[Nathan Andy Kwasam]

Another test!!!
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Nathan Andy Kwasam
Lecturer & Head of Information and Communication Science
UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA, P.O. Box 320, University Post office, NCD,
Papua New Guinea, Tel: (675) 326 7434, Fax: (675) 326 7187

[Fegsley...@educationpng.gov.pg]

Morning

Its wworking
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[UNITECH MAIL]

Top of the Morning

 

 

Paul

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[UNITECH MAIL]

Thanks I can read and send messages but cannot do any work on the wiki as our main server is offline at the moment

 

 

Paul

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[Distance Education]

Top of the hour to you all from the Honiara!

 

Hilmah

 

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Top of the Morning

 

 

Paul

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[Alfred Vahau]

And to you and all. Have installed MediaWiki on my laptop to test out more stuff. Currently hacking to get the Latex stuff working for heavy maths.
Will post results on group.

Cheers
Alf

[Distance Education]

Alf,

 

This is good news. Looking forward to hearing more on your efforts.

 

Hilmah

 

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[Alfred Vahau]

Sure. Here's the progress so far.
1. Downloaded MediaWiki.
2. Already had XAMPP on Windows so created and unpacked MediaWiki into the htdocs folder.
(XAMPP takes care of Apache, PHP and MySql so we don't worry abt. separate installs.)
3. Created a folder called wiki in htdocs and moved everything in MediaWiki to wiki. Then deleted the MediaWiki folder. Moved Localsettins.php file to the wiki folder.
4. Then from the Firefox browser I typed in the location bar the URL
http://localhost/wiki/index.php which fired up the installation menu.
5. Enter all the parameters relating to the database.
6. Under superuser I left the root password blanked as the config file initially accepts no password for root for testing purposes.
7. And in about 3 minutes the familiar template appeared.
8. Then I carved out an icon for my test site from Photoshop to replace the MediaWiki icon.
Size was 135 pixels x 135 pixels. Put it in the images folder and surely Firefox picked it up after refreshing the cache (Ctrl + Shift + Click on Reload button).
9. Everything worked as we learnt in WikiEducator.
10. Had an issue with Uploading images but that was quickly fixed and images were uploaded.

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11. Then I tried to explore the Maths facility from the GUI Editor and that's where I am at the moment. The Maths wouldn't display.
12. Composed Maths in OpenOffice and converted to Latex format and uploaded to WikiEditor and still no good.
13. Then typed in literally a Latex equation and still no good. It was displaying the equation verbatim. e.g \begin{equation}x + y =x\end{equation} appeared literally whereas I wanted x + y = z
15. So I read thru the Math README file and clearly the laptop did not have the requirements to display the equation.
16. It told me what I needed to install to get the equations to work.
17. So I downloaded the Caml 3.06 package (a requirement) for Latex to work.
18. And that's where I am currently. I'm in Windows environment but the language described is Linux. So I will change to Ubuntu on my laptop and see how it goes.
19. But I'll try to fix the Windows problem first as there is an Executable Caml file which I hope will install the required packages just to get the correct Maths output.

OpenOffice exports in Latex format which is good news for heavy maths users. For non-maths users, Steps 1 - 10 is sufficient to test the MediaWiki on your local PC.

Will keep list posted.

Cheers
Alf

[Fegsley...@educationpng.gov.pg]

Thank you. The same to yu


Risapi Fegsley
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